Asahi Prize

The Asahi Prize is a prize awarded by the Japanese newspaper the Asahi shimbun for achievement in scholarship or the arts that has made a contribution to culture or society. It was established in 1929. Many recipients of this prize have later been honoured with a Nobel Prize. It is considered as one of the most prestigious prizes presented by a nongovernmental entity.

Recipients

• Shoichi Sakata, physicist, 1948
• Motosaburo Masuyama, statistician, 1948
• Kenkichi Iwasawa, mathematician, 1959
• Eiichi Goto, physicist, 1959.
• Yozo Matsushima, mathematician, 1962
• Shinichiro Tomonaga, physicist, 1946
• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, novelist
• Izuo Hayashi, physicist, 1986^[1]
• Donald Keene, writer, 1997
• Hirotsugu Akaike, statistician
• Akira Fujishima, chemist, 2003

References

1. ^ Izuo Hayashi. Inamori Foundation

External links

• Contribution to Society page at Asahi shibun site